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The National Cultural Foundation again welcomes on board Scotiabank as the principal sponsor of the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) Performing Arts category of Dance. Mrs. Andrea Wells, the NCF’s Chief Cultural Officer (CCO) speaking to the audience of media personnel, Scotiabank staff and customers in the banking ...

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We asked and the people responded!  Barbadians gave generously to the National Cultural Foundation’s recently held Give-A-Thon tagged The Road To Recovery. Yesterday morning, Wednesday October, 14, 2015, a little over a week after the NCF joined the country’s fundraising efforts to provide assistance for neighbouring Dominica in the aftermath of ...

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The National Cultural Foundation joins the fundraising efforts to assist our CARICOM neighbours in Dominica with much needed food and other personal items. This drive-a-thon tagged “Dominica – The Road To Recovery’’ was conceptualised and planned solely by the staff of the NCF, with the intention of touching many communities ...

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The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) recently announced the winner of the 2015 Irving Burgie Award of Literary Excellence, a competition which has been a beacon of achievement in the creative arts in Barbados for over 30 years. Returning to a literary competition in 2011, the Irving Burgie Award promotes the ...

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The participants in the 2015 Scotiabank Junior Calypso Monarch Programme were recently treated to a deep sea dive aboard the Atlantis Submarine just before their return to school. The Junior Calypso Monarch Programme is known for surpassing the basic tenets of a competition to include a developmental phase, which ensures ...

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The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) mourns the loss of one of its own.  Mr. Anthony DeVere Browne better known as ‘Vere’ Browne joined the NCF as interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2008 at a very challenging period for the organisation and he immediately made unifying the stakeholder communities one ...

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This year was the lucky charm that brought a successful result in this story of determination, thirty-two years in the making.  At least that is how we would describe the win in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, August 2nd for Calypsonian William Waithe stage name Classic of ...

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It’s the climax weekend of the Festival! The Crop Over is winding down, but there are a few more events to go.  Two of these events being the Roberts/BL&P Foreday Morning Jam and Bridgetown Market in association with FLOW attracting loads of visitors from all over the world. The Roberts/BL&P ...

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Two patrons of the Pan Fusion event and the Monarchs of all three major calypso competitions will fly blue for the Festival. At the recently held prestigious Pan Fusion event staged at the Ilaro Court, tagged ‘Sweet Pandemonium,’ Pamela Ifill and Jewel Godett were the lucky recipients of the door ...

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